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Rocking the mic this week with Sarah are special guests Sarah Novotny, program chairwoman for OSCON and technical evangelist and community leader at NGINX; Amy Lewis, influence marketing for data center virtualization at Cisco; and Caroline McCrory, GigaOm Research's senior director of product development.

Kicking off with a debate about the number of women working in IT, Caroline said: "Oh yes, the infamous women in tech and how we're such a delicate breed of flower that needs to be bowed down to ... I find it appalling that there are some women out there who use the term 'feminism' to mask the wider problem of bullying, and bullying happens in all industries, not just tech – I get told to wear makeup or get a designer handbag more by other women than guys."

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